Language in multicultural education
By: [edited by] Rumjahn Hoosain and Farideh Salili.
Contributors: Hoosain, R.; Salili, Farideh.
Series: Research in multicultural education and international perspectives
Publisher: Information Age Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Greenwich, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Linguistic minorities -- Education -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.; Multicultural education -- Cross-cultural studies.; Education, Bilingual -- Cross-cultural studies.
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dimensions of language in multicultural education / Rumjahn Hoosain and Farideh Salili; title: Linguistic and cultural heterogeneity in the classroom: Canada and beyond / John Edwards; title: Second language teaching for multilingualism and multiculturalism: politics, challenges, and possibilities / Ryuko Kubota; title: Resistance to scientific evidence: program evaluation and its lack of influence on policies related to language education programs / Kip Téllez, Susan Leigh Flinspach, and Hersh C. Waxman; title: Understanding the power of words in multicultural education and interaction / Festus E. Obiakor and Darren J. Smith; title: Fostering equity curriculum and pedagogy: educating students with dialectical variations / Laurel M. Garrick Duhaney; title: English and/or mother-tongue instruction: ambivalence in post-apartheid South Africa / Victoria J. Baker; title: The effects of medium of instruction on students' motivation and learning / Farideh Salili and Amy B.M. Tsui; title: Follow-up study of middle school two-way students: language proficiency, achievement, and attitudes / Kathryn J. Lindholm-Leary and Annette Ferrante; title: Language culture and schooling in the United States / Eugene E. Garcia; title: The mismatch between teachers and students: meeting the challenge of preparing teachers for diversity / Carmen de Onís; title: The complexity of language issues in school desegregation: case studies of Latino students in the United States and Roma students in Bulgaria / Susan Roberta Katz, Hristo Kyuchukov, and Kevin J. Graziano; title: Children as language brokers: a narrative of the recollections of college students / Terri L. De Ment, Raymond Buriel, and Christina M. Villanueva; title: Culturally responsive approaches to reading in the multicultural classroom / Ming Fang He and Michael C. McKenna; title: Critical inquiry in a multicultural setting: educational opportunities in a public university / Martha J. Bell and Robert J. Kelly; title: "A l'école on parle français": second language acquisition and the creation of community in a multiethnic Montreal kindergarten / Mela Sarkar; title: To be biliterate and trilingual in the Hong Kong special administrative region / Rumjahn Hoosain; title: English language study in Belarus within the changing sociopolitical context / Caroline Linse; title: Multilingual education: prospects, problems, and issues at a time of greater multiculturalism / Joseph Lo Bianco.